gras comme un cent de clous
\ɡʁa kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ sɑ̃ də klu\
The verdict
“gras comme un cent de clous” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Très maigre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gras comme un cent de clous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡʁa kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ sɑ̃ də klu\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gras comme un cent de clous” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gras comme un cent de clous is 27 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡʁa kɔ.m‿ɛ̃ sɑ̃ də klu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Très maigre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gras comme un cent de clous in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gras comme un cent de clous, spelled G-R-A-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-E-N-T- -D-E- -C-L-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très maigre.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is G-R-A-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -C-E-N-T- -D-E- -C-L-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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